I am currently…

About that new project…

I have periodically worked on music with my friend Stephen Yates. He’s a beastly guitarist, once namet Guitarist magazine’s Classical Guitarist of the Year and axeman for the erstwhile Scat Opera.

We have played music together for fun off and on for years. Our rough as guts blues project Yellowjaw stalled for want of a willing drummer a couple of years ago. I have helped Steve with some audio polishing on his one-take videos of his solo acoustic guitar compositions.

We are now talking about making an album of his electric guitar work with me producing/engineering/arranging for the project. Steve is seldom short of ideas and a full-fledged project will be a good way to get me moving musically.

More details will follow…

I am reading…

Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction by Susan Blackmore

Reading it makes me think of the Niels Bohr quote, “A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.”

White Bicycles by Joe Boyd

He’s awesome. His story is fascinating.

Creation by Gore Vidal

I’ve been interested in him and amused by his wit for a long time, but never read any of his books.

I am thinking about…

The limitations of interactions online as mediated by huge platforms

There are lots of possibilities for how to interact online, but our behaviour is manipulated by a few huge companies into ways that benefit them